Thank you so much. Mother jones has been huge part of this. Im really flattered and honored. Thank you so much. Thank everyone for coming. Ill stick around and would love to meet everyone, so if you have time to talk, i will be here. [applause] and no booktv, Patrick James expense International Relations using themes found in the book lord of the rings. This is about half an hour. And welcome to the scholars circle. The lord of the rings trilogy and its prequel the hobbit have collectively grossed billions of dollars in sales, and now companies are planning to exploit it for think parks, video games, slot machines, other properties. But in the lord of the rings actually act as a means to understand complex politics and International Relations . Our guest with us today says that it can, and hes recently written a book to just show that. Patrick james is a professor at university of southern california. And a director for the center for international studies. This book is like a cold the
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Always, is in more complications. We offer more evacuation orders are lifted. Allowing people to return home and in some cases, Governor Brown there is nothing left. Affects some houses are burned nextdoor is not. So it is the wind, the vegetation of the construction. All of the combined to make fires dumping people even though we are learning more about what can you say . You lose your house and belongings, people lose animals. It is a horror. To listen people of saint get the alerts on your cell phone ready to go. And springer is joining me from california with an update. Been a pretty good day. If there is wind died down today. This has been one of the things where the wind is moving everything. But it is not or by any stretch of imagination. The and is expected to pick up at the tomorrow morning when the best thing to 60 miles now. We have new numbers out in the are staggering. The six finest one of the 75,000 acres have burned. That amounts to 270 square miles. Just over 1000 stru